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Cynthia Shmerler | |
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| Born | April 23, 1959 |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) |
Cynthia (Cindy) Shmerler (born April 23, 1959) is an award-winning sports journalist and broadcaster who has covered tennis, among other sports, for 45 years..[1] She has worked across mediums, as a newspaper and magazine writer and as a commentator on television, radio and social media. Shmerler is currently a freelance sports correspondent for the New York Times.[2] She writes articles on major tennis championships for the New York Times international edition which runs worldwide digitally, as well as in print. In August 2023, she earned her induction into the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame.[1]
Career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Shmerler began her career at World Tennis magazine where she rose from summer intern to managing editor until the magazine folded in 1991.[1] While a junior in college she won the coveted Time Inc. internship and worked as a reporter at Sports Illustrated. She returned to Time Inc. several years later as a writer for People magazine. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe,[3] Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times,[4] USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram,[5] S.I.com,[6] Elle magazine, among many others, and in countless programs and book chapters worldwide. She has interviewed such former legends as Don Budge, Helen Hull Jacobs, Rod Laver, Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, Arthur Ashe, John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, among many others.
Sportswriting
[edit]Shmerler is currently a freelance sports correspondent for the New York Times.[2] She writes articles for the New York Times international edition which runs worldwide digitally, as well as in print. For the Times, Shmerler has interviewed top player on the ATP and WTA Tours, including recent featured stories on Jannik Sinner,[7] Carlos Alcaraz,[7] Roger Federer[8], Novak Djokovic[9], Alexander Zverev[10], Iga Swiatek[11], Jasmine Paolini[12], Coco Gauff[13], Jessica Pegula[14] and Emma Navarro[15]. She has written about greats from Rod Laver[16] and Billie Jean King[17] to Serena and Venus Williams[18] and a memorial tribute to her dear friend and longtime colleague, Bud Collins[19].
One of her tennis articles--"Tennis at the (Bathroom) Breaking Point"--was featured on the page A1 of the New York Times during the 2019 U.S. Open. She has also written recent New York Times articles on the Professional Women’s Hockey League[20] and on Unrivaled, the new 3 X 3 professional women’s basketball league set to debut in January 2025[21].
Shmerler is also an obituary writer for The New York Times. She has authored several obits on people from former athletes[22] to the first Black women to receive a medical degree in the United States[23]. Her obituary on Angela Ruiz Robles[24], the inventor on the e-reader, was featured in the Overlooked book in 2023.
Shmerler is a former contributing editor and frequent correspondent at Tennis magazine/Tennis.com[25].
Sportcasting
[edit]Shmerler has been a tennis commentator for more than 35 years. She has worked as an analyst, sideline reporter and interviewer for USA Network at the U.S. Open and as an analyst for men’s and women’s tennis at ESPN.[1] For more than 15 years she was the voice of men’s ATP tennis for ESPN International where it is believed she became the first woman to do play-by-play of men’s professional tennis.[1] She’s covered all major tournaments, as well as the Davis Cup and the year-end championships, for ESPN International. She has also done play-by-play and color for ESPN/Direct TV and the World Feed at the U.S. Open, as well as live-streaming events for the USTA Pro Circuit.
She is continually featured on Tennis Channel[26] and ESPN. She also serves as the daytime voice of American Express Radio at the U.S. Open.[27]
Personal life
[edit]Shmerler graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and a minor in Spanish. At Penn, she was a member of the women’s varsity tennis and squash teams[1] and a founding member of Bloomer’s, the university’s all-female musical comedy troop.[28] For four years she covered all sports for the award-winning Daily Pennsylvanian, including varsity football and the 1979 Final Four Penn men’s basketball team.
Shmerler serves on several philanthropic boards, including the Hudson Valley, N.Y. Alzheimer’s Association,[29] the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women,[30] Surprise Lake Camp[31] and The Main Idea at Camp Walden,[32] a Maine summer camp for economically disadvantaged girls. She is a 2018 recipient of the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Award of Merit, which highlights and honors outstanding efforts by alumni volunteers across the globe.[33]
Shmerler grew up in Scarsdale, New York and currently lives in Westchester County, N.Y., with her husband, Ford Levy.[34] The couple have two adult children.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "2023". EASTERN TENNIS HOF. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ a b "Cindy Shmerler". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "A long recovery for Bethanie Mattek-Sands". The Boston Globe. 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ Shmerler, Cindy (1989-11-14). "After Slow Start, Sabatini Beats Magers at New York". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Sports Article". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
- ^ "'15 French Open finalist Safarova's recovery continues in Paris". SI. 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ a b "The Big 3 Have Faded. Who Will Dominate Next?". 2024-11-08. Archived from the original on 2024-11-12. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "The Laver Cup and Its Growing Tradition". 2024-09-19. Archived from the original on 2024-11-24. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "15 Years After Novak Djokovic Won His First ATP Finals, He's Still Dominant". 2023-11-10. Archived from the original on 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "The Many Trials of Alexander Zverev". 2024-11-08. Archived from the original on 2024-11-12. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Iga Swiatek, Voted a Fan Favorite, Turns to the Finals". 2021-11-05. Archived from the original on 2021-11-05. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "NYTimes, The High-Energy Jasmine Paolini Has Broken Through".
- ^ Tennis.com. "Helping Hands: Coco Gauff hopes to follow in Williams Sisters footsteps". Tennis.com. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Jessica Pegula Is Learning to Use Her Claws". The New York Times. 2023-08-25.
- ^ "Emma Navarro Is Getting Someplace Fast". 2024-08-24. Archived from the original on 2024-09-20. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Here's Why It's Named the Laver Cup (Published 2019)". 2019-09-19. Archived from the original on 2022-10-25. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ Tennis.com. "Standin' in the Hall of Fame: The Original 9 remind us that "giving and getting go hand in hand"". Tennis.com. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Serena and Venus Williams, Before They Were Champions (Published 2022)". August 27, 2022.
- ^ "Celebrating Bud Collins, a Tennis Treasure Told in Words and Pants (Published 2015)". 2015-09-07. Archived from the original on 2024-07-28. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "A Hockey Player Wanted to Form a Pro Women's League. Billie Jean King Helped Make It Happen". August 13, 2024.
- ^ "Micky Lawler, a Longtime Tennis Executive, Turns to Basketball". 2024-08-13. Archived from the original on 2024-08-23. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Overlooked No More: Jimmie McDaniel, Tennis Player Who Broke Barriers (Published 2021)". 2021-02-11. Archived from the original on 2023-11-17. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Overlooked No More: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Who Battled Prejudice in Medicine (Published 2021)". 2021-07-16. Archived from the original on 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Overlooked No More: Ángela Ruiz Robles, Inventor of an Early E-Reader". 2023-11-10. Archived from the original on 2024-06-02. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Wertheim, Lupica and more look back on Bud Collins' career". Tennis.com. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ Tennis.com. "Tennis Channel Broadcast". Tennis.com. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ manfred (2023-07-02). "The Golden Age of American Daily Newspaper U.S. Open Tennis Coverage - A Look Back". World Tennis Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Alumni". Bloomers Comedy. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "About the Alzheimer's Association Hudson Valley Board of Directors". Alzheimer's Association.
- ^ "Awards and Speakers". www.alumni.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Board Leadership". Surprise Lake Camp. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Board of Directors". The Main Idea at Camp Walden. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Penn's 2018 Alumni Award of Merit Gala Awards". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Cindy Shmerler, Editor, Is Wed". The New York Times. 1991-04-14. Archived from the original on 2016-09-30. Retrieved 2024-12-21.